Water-bottle stopper.



No. 876,002. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908. H. P. KRAFT & M C. SGHWEINERT.

WATER BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17. 1906.

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M/ Mi? UNITED STATES. PnTENT OFFICE.

HENRY P. KRAFT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.. AND MA XIMTTJAN CHARLES SOHWEINERT, OF WEST Y HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

WATER-BOTTLE sToPPER. r

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 7, 1908.

Application filed April 17. 1906. Serial No. 312.187.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY P. Karim,-

re'siding in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, and MAXIMILIAN CnARLEs SOHWEI- NERT, "residing in West Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey,

dle or other part of the stopper, the latter bottle.

connection being such as to permit the independent rotation of the stopper.

In the drawings wherein we have shown several embodiments of our invention, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the neck and mouth of a hot water bottle showing the application of our improved retainer thereto, the stop er being shown in place in its socket; being shown as removed; Fi 3 is a plan of Fig.1; Fig. 4 is a view of t eretainer detached; Fig. 5' is a plan of the stopper showing a modified form of connection; Fig. 6 is an elevation partly in section showing a modified form of clip, and Fig. 7 is a similar view of another modification. Referring to the drawings, let A designate a suitable'hot water bottle having a neck a an'd a funnel shaped mouth 5. The socket member B of the stopper is shown as vulcanized tothe neck a and as having an inturned flange c constituting a seat against which the'stopper C is screwed to close the bottle; The stopper C is of any usual construction, that shown having a screw-threaded body portion 61 carrying a acking disk 0 at its lower end and provide at its upper end with a handle f.

In use the stopper is very apt to be lost or become mislaid, and various constructions have been proposed to obviate this disadvantage by providing means to prevent the complete separation of the stopper from the Such means have either necessitated the inseparable attachment of the stopper to the bottle at the factory, or have involved ig. 2 is a similar view, the stopper the use of a member extending through the neck of the bottle and engaging the inner wall thereof. Both of these constructions have certain features of disadvantage which are obviated by our present invention.

According to thepreferred form of our invention we provide a retainer which may be manufactured as a separate device, and whioh'can be applied to and removed from any of the well known constructions of hot watler bottles by hand without the aid '.of a too tion isi ustrated in Figs. 1 to 4. In this'construction we provide a retainer h shown as a chain formed of suitable metalwhich is rovided at one end with a means for swive in it to the stopper and referably to a reduce ortion thereof, such as the neck of the handle Any suitable means for this purpose may beprovided, but we prefer to employ a ring 91 of wire or sheet metal, the latter being shown in the drawings, such ring being split to permit the reduced portion of the handle near the body of the stopper to pass into its center aperture, and being constructed of sufficiently flexible metal to enable it to be bent to permit the passage of the handle. WVhen the ends of the ring are returned to their normal positions the ring constitutes a swiveled connection which permitsv the independent rotation of the stopper during screwing in and unscrewing of the latter. At its other end the retainer h is provided with a means for enga ing an outside 'art of the water bottle,suc as the funnel or odythereof, orpart carried thereby, as distinguished from the interior wall of the bottle, so that such retainer does not ass within the neck of the bottle. Preferab y also such means forms a permanent connection for the retainer instead of merely engaging the bottle when moved to its extreme pos tion as is the case with the internal retainers heretofore used.

We preferably construct such means in the form of a clip which as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 is ada ted to s ring over the to wall of the funne or mout of the bottle so t at it is frictionally held in lace thereon. The engagement is rendered more certain by the usual reinforce 70, which somewhat thickens the upper edge of the funnel. I

Various modifications may be made in the construction justdescribed without departing from our invention.

The referred construction of our inven-' In Fig. 5 we have illustrated a construction in which the means for swiveling the retainer to the stopper is formed of a chain instead of a split rin In this construction the chain is provided at its end with a hook I by means of which said end may be connected with the bod ortion so as to form in effect a loop or circ e '1, of sufiioiently small diameter to prevent the removal of the sto per therefrom. In this instance the retainer and the loop 11 are conveniently formed of a single length of chain. In Fig. 6 we have shown a modified form of clip 7". In this construction instead of frictionally engaging the wall of the bottle, the clip is rovlded with a screw-threaded shank which-1s adapted to pass through the mouth -or funnel, a nut being provided to hold the clip in place. In the construction shown in Fig. 7 a similarform of cli 7' is illustrated. In this construction the clip is formed as a split pin, the ends of which are adapted to be passed through the wall of the funnel and ent back to clamp the in in place.

, In the constructions s own 1n Figs. 6 and 7 as well as in Fig. 1 it will be observed that the cli may be applied to the funnel with a leaktig t joint, so as to permit the cli to be fastened at any suitable point therein without destroying the efiiciency of the funnel. This permits us to place the clip at a point about midway between the top and bottom of the funnel so that a retainer of very short length may be used, thus making such constructions very economical and efiicient.

Other modifications may. be emploggd without de arting from the invention.

device which permits the independent rotation of the stopper and which may be a plied thereto byh and may be substituted f r the ring '2'. or the modifications thereof herein suggested. So also an suitable form of engagmg means 1' applica le to the water bottle by from the stopper and the bottle.

hand ma be employed instead of those shown. 'le we have illustrated the retainer h as a chain, it will be understood that any intervening member which is capable of permitting the removal of the stopper from 1ts socket and which still prevents the complete separation thereof from the bottle may e substituted for such chain.

It will be observed that this improvement provides a' retainer utilizing a ve small quantity of metal and of the very c eapest manufacture, and which can be sold as an article of manufacture entirely separate There has long been'a demand for an article of this sort which any person without the slightest knowledge of mechanism can attach to water bottles and stoppers of standard designs. At the same time the device differs from fastening means used in other arts in being specially designed to lie. within the funnel when the bottle is in use, so as to 'Wit avoid contact with the face-or body-of the user; in permitting a very quick and easy application of the stopper in place, thus avoidi the necessity of carefully manipulating t e usually hot neck of the bottle; in permitting the stopper to hang over the edge of the funnel just within easy reach and yet not in the way of the water, which would heat it extremely; and in holding the loosely dangling stopper when the bottle is out of use and is hung up in its usual inverted position.

In use it is common to tie one end of a string to the stopper, and to tie the other end around the outside of the neck of the bottle, but such a string is very much in the Way and lies on the outside of the bottle where it sometimes makes an unpleasant contact with the-face or body of the user of the bottle. The attaching of the retainer to the edge of the funnel, or to some point on the inner face between the edge and the socket, is a point of considerable value, which can only be secured by fastening the retainer directly to the wall of the funnel. The ring *5 is of such a thin flat shape that no difficulty is experienced in bending the ends laterally in opposite directions, and it is not necessary to put any strain upon the metalin order to make a sufficientl wide passage for the introduction of the andle of the stopper, and therefore there is no substantial permanent distortion which might interfere with the returning of the ring to its normal position, with the passage closed to such an extent as to revent the escape of the stopper.

at we claim 1s: v 1.' A retainer for stoppers of water bottles having a funnel above the stopper, said retain'er constituting a complete and separate article of manufacture and being provided with means for connecting one end of the same to a reduced portion of a stopper by hand, such means permitting said stopper to rotate relatively to said retainer, and with means for fasteningv the op osite end by hand directly to the wall of t e funnel.

2. The combination with a hot water hottle having a funnel 6 extending above its mouth, and a stopper 0 screwing into the mouth of the bott eand provided at its upper end with a handle f having a portion of reduced width, of a retainer adapted to be fastened at one end by-hand directly to the wall of the funnel in a fixed position thereon and to be connected at the opposite end by hand about the reduced portion of the sto per handle f, so as to permit rotation of t e stopper relativelyto the retainer, said retainer when so connected lying throughout substantially its entire length within the hmnel' when the stopper is in place, and bemg flexible and long enough to permit the sto er to lie over the edge of the funnel easy reach but out of the way while filling the bottle, and being so strongly attached as to hold the loose stopper when the bottle is inverted with the stopper withdrawn.

3. The combination with a retainer for water bottle stoppers or the like, adapted to revent complete separation of the stopper rom a' bottle, of means for connecting the same to a reduced portion of a stopper, such means comprising'a thin flat ring 'i havin a single radial cut or passage, the shape'an material of said ring permittin its ends to be readily manually separate by move- 'ment in a direction transverse to the plane of the ring to permit the passage of the stopper hahdle into the ring, said passage being normally so small as to prevent accidenta escape ofthe handle out of the ring.

4. A retainer for stoppers ofwater bottles having a funnel b above the stopper, said retainer being providedat one end with a thin fiat metal ring 'i having a single radial cut or passage, said ring adapted to have its endsreadily manually separated by movement in a direction transverse to the plane of the ring sufficiently for the passage of the stopper handle into the rin and said passage being normally so smafil as to prevent accidenta escape of the handle out of the rin and means for connecting the opposite en of the retainer to the funnel at such a point as to maintain the retainer entirely within the funnel when the stopper is in place, and to permit withdrawal of the stopper out of the funnel.

,5. In a retainer for stoppers of Water bottles having a funnel b above the stopper with an enlarged edge 7c, the combination of means for encircling a reduced portion of the stopper and permitting relative rotation of the latter, and a clip adapted to be forced over the enlarged edge 7c of the funnel to engage the same frictionally and to thus retain the stopper in connection with the bottle.

6. A retainer for stoppers of water bottles having a funnel above the stopper, said retainer constituting a complete and separate article of manufacture and being provided with means for connecting-one end of the'same to a reduced portion of a stopper by hand, such means being formed of an inelastic material, and being adapted to permit said stopper to rotate relatively to said retainer, and said retainer being provided with means for fastening the opposite end by hand directly to the wallof the funnel and for retaining it in fixed position thereon.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY P. KRAFT. MAXIMILIAN CHARLES SCHWEINERT;

Witnesses:

EUGENE V. MYERS,

FRED WHITE. 

